Which is more disturbing: That the president and vice-president continue to deny that the United States engaged in torture, or that the right-wing pundits use the plot of a TV show to justify such actions?

Whenever there is a drastic change in ideas and behavior there will
always be a backlash. Change can be painful. It means you have to give
up something. You have to turn loose something you may not necessarily have held dear, but was something you had become accustomed to. The good news is, with time, people learn to adapt.

Medication will be distributed to 12,000 child refugees from the
Russian invasion in August and 12,000 children under age 5 in the
high mountain regions of Georgia, said ACTS President Patricia "Trish"
Blair, a Columbia resident who founded the group.

Volunteers handed out compact fluorescent light bulbs to Columbia residents on Monday evening at J.W. "Blind" Boone Community Center on North Providence Road in conjunction with President-elect Barack Obama's call for a national day of service.